Confection.



A. J. MEIER.

OONFEGTION.

APPLICATION nun 1120.5, 1910.

996,024, Patented June 20,1911.

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APPLIUATION mum DEG. 5. 1910.

996,024, Patented June 20,1911.

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m8 0mm UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

'anmzm; JOHN;

con-macros.

Application filed, December,- 5

To all-'wlzzii it Il'td'll concern? Be it known that l. Aria-arr J. Mania, a citizen of the l nitedfht'ates, residing at Glendale, in the ,eaanly of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain, new and useful Improvements in Conf'ec- I her to produce a delicious, attractive, and

inexpensive article of food.

In the accompanyingdrmvings forming )art of this specification, in which like numbers of reference denote likeparts wherever theyoccur, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved article of food; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of same; Fig. 3 is aside elevation of same; Fig. 4: is a top plan view (if an alternate form of the article; and Fig. 5

is a top plan view or an alternate form of the article.

lhe article is formed of dough or other suitable material that.- is rolled or pressed into a sheet or layer, after which the strips 1 are cut or otherwise formed therefrom.- The stri )S 1 are preferably arranged in layers of twos, one layer resting upon another and extending crosswise" thereof in order' to form a crisscross or crib-like article, which is then cooked in any suitable manner. When the article is cooked the strips 1 adhere to each other at. their points of crossing and thereby retain theircrisscross relation. The strips 1 of each layer are preferably spaced apart so as to leave an open space 2 in the middle of the article. As the strips 1 only engage each other at their points of crossing, the heatis allowed to circulate between said strips and thereby cooks same more thoroughly and quicker than an article formed of one piece of material.

The strips 1 can be straight and arranged so as to form opening 2 with any desired configuration, such, for example, as a. teef tifiitma'm cameraman carved as depicted in Fig.

' the strips.

v iav-"i vI c I Ita'ngulariopening.asnlepicted in Fig. 2, or a uuuhshaped .opening as illustrated in 4-. and, if desired. said strips can be .1, or formed with cry other desired shape. It should be un derstood, also, that.- the article can be formed of any number of layers of strips 1.

The ingredients of the material of which the strips 1 are formed can be varied so as to render the article suitable for use as an article of dessert, breakfast food, cracker, toast. zwieback, cake, candy, and other eat.- ables. When the article is used for dessert. breakfast food, etc. ertmm, sauce, or

the like, an be used therewith, and, by reason of the spaced relation of the strips 1, the cream, sauce, or the like, can circulate between and around said strips so as to moisten each of same. The opening 2 can be tilled with fruit, whipped cream, or other desired filling, thus producing a delicious and att active article of food.

Strips l, are ll-ranged in pairs, the pairs being disposed in superimposed order.

Opcnin" 2, it will be observed, extends centrally and vertically through the article, serving during the cooking or baking operation to form a heat flue through which the heat passes or courses upwardly and in so passing through the opening obviously intin tately contacts with the inner sides of strips 1, which define opening 2, resulting in a thorough baking of the inner sides of The spaces between the upper face of an under strip and the lower or bottom face of an upper strip provide a multiplicity of transverse or horizontal heat; tlues 3 disposed at right angles to the central vertical flue 2. Thus the top and bottom face of each strip excepting at their points of contact, and the sides and ends thereof are subjected to the maximum heat elticiency of the cooking agent, the latter not only surrounding the article. but iii-addition entering: the horizontal flues 3, and the central rertical flue 2, coursing upwardly in the latter.

I claim:

1. An article of food comprising a body formed with a central opening which extends through the top and bottom of the body and which provides a heat flue in the cooking operation and further formed with a series of transverse openings which form transverse heat flues communicating with the central flue.

' Juarez-a1 91 2. An article of food comprising a series of layers of food material, eachlsyer comprising a pair of spaced cooked strips of fdod material, aid pairs being arranfid in superim osed' relation, :1 lower pair eing dispose transverse tc an upper pair to define a central vertical space which forms a. vertical heat flue during the cooking operation, 'and further forming aseries of transverse heat receiving flues between alternate layers which transverse flues communicate wlth the central flue to permit the heat to hate access to lthe,tops;bottoms, sides and ends of etch of the strips except at their points of mutual contact which points of 16 v ALBERT JOHN MEIER. Witnesses:

Gmnrs Wsurcn, GEORGE G. ANnnnsoN. 

